Visions of Sodom: Religion and Sexuality since the Reformation
March 14, 2017
In September 1850, the French savant Louis-Felicien de Saulcy, charged with a Mission Scientifique from the French government, and in the company of a Catholic priest and four young men on a tour of the East, set out to circumnavigate and map the Dead Sea. Four months later, on his way round the shores of …
The Botanical History of Genoa through the eyes of John Ray and Francis Willughby, 1664 to the Present
March 10, 2017
What can the botanical history of a place give to contemporary urban planning and cultural heritage? This is a question addressed in a new paper in Landscape History (see link) by Ross Balzaretti (Nottingham History), Charles Watkins (Nottingham Geography), Raffaella Bruzzone (Marie Curie fellow, Nottingham), and Carlo Montanari (University of Genoa). The authors have used …
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